Game 11 : 49ers @ Packers - Sunday, Nov. 24th 3:25 PM

[adambr2]

Just now, CheezWizHed said:

I don't think people are saying he is a garbage QB... just that he could be really good and he continues to make poor decisions that keep him in that "good but not great" range of QBs. 

It’s been a weird year for QBs. I think really only Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen have been consistently great, maybe Burrow. For the most part all the others have had up and downs, even the usually great ones.

[Sixtolezcano]

2 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

It's getting old though. The guy throws an incomplete pass and he should have checked it down. The dude threw a long completion last week and there were 3 immediate posts about how bad of a throw it was because it was into coverage. Every single thing the dude does is under a microscope. I've said myself he's not having a good season, but there's been very little in this game to be concerned about. His box score is bad, that's about it.  They've dominated the LOS and frankly he just wasn't asked to do that much today. He had one great TD pass that his WR didn't catch.  I never expected he would look amazing Year 1 - Year 15. 

The 49ers haven't lost a game this season by more than one score outside of Kansas City. They're not playing the Jaguars again.  

Although he was extremely lucky he doesn’t have 2 more interceptions.

[HarveysWBs]

1 minute ago, CheezWizHed said:

True on Watson, but then he throws two more deep shots and punt instead of taking a few underneath routes and kick a FG.  They were moving it, they had two timeouts, the 49ers were in prevent D... getting another 20 yards and kicking the FG was a real possibility, but Love decided to keep gunning on low-chance throws.

Just poor game level decision making. 

I agree on decision making. He needs to clean that up. I don’t watch enough other teams to get a feel for how unusual this is in today’s football. In the Favre era, it seemed like every qb just gave the other team two or three balls that can be picked. Seems like there are a fair number of picks league-wide, but haven’t compared numbers year over year or anything.

[CheezWizHed]

8 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

It's getting old though. The guy throws an incomplete pass and he should have checked it down. The dude threw a long completion last week and there were 3 immediate posts about how bad of a throw it was because it was into coverage. Every single thing the dude does is under a microscope. I've said myself he's not having a good season, but there's been very little in this game to be concerned about. His box score is bad, that's about it.  They've dominated the LOS and frankly he just wasn't asked to do that much today. He had one great TD pass that his WR didn't catch.  I never expected he would look amazing Year 1 - Year 15. 

The 49ers haven't lost a game this season by more than one score outside of Kansas City. They're not playing the Jaguars again.  

But is it really any different than Rodgers in the last few years?  When you are a franchise QB and make questionable decisions, people are going to call you on it. 

That and remember in-game threads are often "brutal" on hot takes. 😉

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I'm glad to see us running up the score on SF. Genuinely. 

[homer]

it's nice to win 38 - 10 and know you didn't play all that great

[HarryDoyle]

Just now, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I'm glad to see us running up the score on SF. Genuinely. 

Get another touchdown. Go all Ohio State on them.

[CheezWizHed]

1 minute ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I'm glad to see us running up the score on SF. Genuinely. 

Love only gets his TDs in garbage time!

Couldn't resist. 😂

[HarryDoyle]

2 minutes ago, homer said:

it's nice to win 38 - 10 and know you didn't play all that great

It helps to be +3 in the turnover battle.

[HarveysWBs]

1 minute ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I'm glad to see us running up the score on SF. Genuinely. 

Nuke the whole site from orbit.

[Strike4]

20 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I'm sorry, and I'll get lit on fire, but this place is outrageously harsh on Jordan Love. 

I actually like Love  but he has a 50% completion percentage today with 2 near picks.  Something is just not clicking right now

[Strike4]

Williams with a really nice tackle to shut the door 

[HarryDoyle]

Throw the damn ball. Run it up on Shanahan.

[sveumrules]

1 hour ago, OldHeidelberg said:

because the D is mediocre

Three more turnovers and only ten points allowed for the mediocre D today.

[OldHeidelberg]

24 minutes ago, sveumrules said:

Three more turnovers and only ten points allowed for the mediocre D today.

Ha well I didn’t say they were bad, they have their moments. 🙂

[yourout]

Really hope the Niners don't find a way to win that division.

Still have little confidence on beating them on the road if they are healthy.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

13 hours ago, yourout said:

Really hope the Niners don't find a way to win that division.

Still have little confidence on beating them on the road if they are healthy.

They still play the Bills and Lions. I am not too concerned about them either way. Should have beaten them last year, definitely should beat them this year.

[adambr2]

This season is a good reminder that no matter the young talent on your team, nothing is ever guaranteed, because there are 31 other teams out there also trying to get better.

That’s essentially what happened to us this year. Any other year, you’re sitting great at 8-3. This year, two other teams in our division got better, so we’re staring at a likely 6 seed even if we win 12 games.

I certainly can’t say it’s been a disappointing season, but a first round exit still seems more likely than a Super Bowl run right now. Something just still seems off. Maybe they’ll figure out what it is near the end of the season like they did last year.

[SeaBass]

15 hours ago, yourout said:

Really hope the Niners don't find a way to win that division.

Still have little confidence on beating them on the road if they are healthy.

Being concerned about the 49ers feels odd when the Detroit Lions exist.

[SeaBass]

Personally I think it's Detroit and then everybody else. Maybe the Eagles are also a problem but after that I'm not really that scared of anyone else in the playoffs on the NFC side of things. Of course the Packers could lose to anybody which should go without saying as well.

I think the Packers can hang with Detroit but it would take a really well executed game plan by the Packers and perhaps a bit of an off day for the Lions.

I'm really trying to come to terms with the reality that the Lions are big Super Bowl favorites. Such a strange feeling. They're ridiculously good. I'm not sure I can even say I "hate" them (though I really do because I don't like any of our division rivals). I definitely don't like their coach but if I'm being honest I'd probably love the guy if he was the Packers coach. I do think the guy is a little too in love with himself and his trick plays for my taste.

One thing that won't make me hate my life if I witness a Lions SB championship, it will be hilarious to point fingers at the Vikings franchise and tell them the Lions got a SB win before they did.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

The Lions will quickly go from everyone's darling to everyone's enemy  about a year after winning the Super Bowl when people grow tired of 50-point games, "Opponent Sucks" shirts, trick plays up 3 TDs, the coach going from "intense" to "arrogant"...it happens with everybody. McKinney was correct when he mentioned them wanting to humiliate people. More power to them, I guess. 

They're good, I would say Super Bowl favorite. I think people are exaggerating the gap a bit though.

[homer]

20 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

The Lions will quickly go from everyone's darling to everyone's enemy  about a year after winning the Super Bowl when people grow tired of 50-point games, "Opponent Sucks" shirts, trick plays up 3 TDs, the coach going from "intense" to "arrogant"...it happens with everybody. McKinney was correct when he mentioned them wanting to humiliate people. More power to them, I guess. 

They're good, I would say Super Bowl favorite. I think people are exaggerating the gap a bit though.

That NFC Championship game between Philly and DET is going to be epic

[adambr2]

25 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

The Lions will quickly go from everyone's darling to everyone's enemy  about a year after winning the Super Bowl when people grow tired of 50-point games, "Opponent Sucks" shirts, trick plays up 3 TDs, the coach going from "intense" to "arrogant"...it happens with everybody. McKinney was correct when he mentioned them wanting to humiliate people. More power to them, I guess. 

They're good, I would say Super Bowl favorite. I think people are exaggerating the gap a bit though.

Heck, Tom Brady and the Patriots were once the feel-good story of the NFL..

Rams were heavily favored in 2002… greatest show on turf. Already had won a SB. Patriots were the scrappy underdogs, led by a young late round QB replacing Drew Bledsoe. 

Patriots didn’t even have individual player introductions for that Super Bowl, just opted to be introduced as a team, pulled off the upset, and America loved it. Plus it was a few months after 9/11, so “Patriots” fit.

[OldHeidelberg]

The Lions look unbeatable and are pretty clear favorites in NFC but I am holding out hope they could go 0-4 on aggressive 4th down plays in a playoff game and get bounced. That would be so sweet. I like that the Packers have sort of been in the shadow of the Vikings and Lions all year. We have some things going for us, MLF teams finish strong in regular season and we are relatively healthy. Clean up the mistakes on offense and get Jaire healthy. Then get out of the wildcard round and let's see what happens. I would agree it doesn't feel like our year but the Packers have fallen on their faces in years when it did so many times maybe we are due.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

The Lions have blown out the cellar dwellers. Like annihilated them. 

I don't, however, understand where all this "unbeatable" stuff comes from. They have a less than 7 margin of victory against anyone who isn't Dallas, Indy or Jacksonville. When I compare to historic benchmark teams that, when you watched, you really had the sense nobody could compete with them (96 Packers, 07 Patriots who funny enough didn't win, 98 Vikings who also didn't win LOL), they do not carry that level of dominance to me.

If you are asking me to pick my team right now to win the SB, I'd pick them. I think they are a very good and disciplined team that doesn't beat themselves for the most part. But I don't even view them the same way I viewed the Seahawks in '14 where I really did not think the Packers had any shot of going in to Seattle and winning. 

Unpopular opinion but I thought the Packers actually slowed them down defensively better than most teams had. I would still consider GB an underdog, but I just thought that game was a burn the tape game where we just had way too many unforced errors to compete. Frankly the way GB played I'm surprised it wasn't of the 52-6 variety.

I'd give the Packers a puncher's chance in a playoff game, and I'd give Philly a better shot than that as well as any of the other formidable teams. I don't think Detroit is going to just cakewalk through the conference like it seems most people believe. At a minimum, I don't see them as even remotely unbeatable.